Abba: The Definitive Collection [DVD]

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a b c Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (2 September 2021). "Abba reunite for Voyage, first new album in 40 years". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 August 2021. White, Peter (27 April 2018). "ABBA To Reunite After 35 Years With NBC & BBC TV Special". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 3 September 2021. I had to go through my mental memory bank of musicians that I’d played with or that I’d known,” Righton told NME. “I’ve been making music and involved in it for quite some time now, so I know a lot of musicians who’d be able to play this music. I had to put the feelers out very tentatively and confidentially for people who’d be up for the task of being in ABBA’s band.”

Ed Potton from The Times magazine rated it with four stars out of five and stated that " Voyage is a reassuringly familiar blend of clear-eyed sentiment, outrageous musicality and utter indifference to fashion". [43] He praised Frida (about whom he claimed to have noticed a stronger Swedish accent than usual, although he doesn't consider this a bad thing) and Agnetha's vocals, calling them "pristine and moving", and wrote that even though the "songs can sound naff on first listen yet you’re pulled in by Benny Andersson’s melodic oomph and Bjorn Ulvaeus eccentric lyrical insights". [43] Austria Top40 Longplay-Jahrescharts 2021". Ö3 Austria Top 40. 8 November 2019. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022 . Retrieved 2 January 2022. ABBA reunite in London to film for 2022 hologram tour". Dothan Eagle. 22 September 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020 . Retrieved 3 September 2021. Official IFPI Chart Top-75 Album Sales Chart (Combined) 44/2021". IFPI Greece . Retrieved 16 November 2021. Oficjalna lista sprzedaży:: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 18 November 2021.Details of Voyage were announced early September, along with ABBA Voyage, the revolutionary new concert with Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid performing digitally with a live 10-piece band, in a purpose-built ‘ABBA arena’ at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Asked what the best thing about being in Abba is, Andersson replied, with refreshing candour: “Not having to worry about the money. You are free to do anything, to keep on writing the music.” Výsledky trhu 2021 - Česká republika" (PDF) (in Czech). Česká národní skupina Mezinárodní federace hudebního průmyslu . Retrieved 18 November 2022. Voyage became ABBA's highest-charting album in the United States, entering the Billboard 200 at number two on 20 November 2021, beating their previous high of number 14 with ABBA: The Album in 1978. It opened with 82,000 album-equivalent units, including 78,000 album sales (60,500 of which were physical), making it the highest-selling album of the week. [53] The group entered Melodifestivalen again in 1974, this time with ‘Waterloo’, which took them all the way to the Eurovision finals in Brighton, England. By this time they had changed their name to ABBA, an acronym of their first names. ABBA was also the name of a Swedish canned fish company; fortunately, they agreed to lending their name to a pop group. The Eurovision Song Contest on April 6, 1974 turned out to be the most famous moment in ABBA history, when the group won the international juries over with ‘Waterloo’.

ABBA first announced they were preparing digital avatars in September 2017. Dubbed the "ABBAtars", they will appear during the ABBA Voyage concerts in place of the four actual band members. To animate the avatars, the ABBA band members wore motion-capture suits and were filmed using 160 cameras, with graphics later added by Industrial Light & Magic, [10] [27] a visual effects company. a b Bloom, Madison (2 September 2021). "ABBA Announce First Album in 40 Years, Share New Songs: Listen". Pitchfork . Retrieved 3 September 2021.ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2021". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 13 January 2022. Long before the musical and movies, however, their song catalogue was already one of the most successful – and brilliant – in all pop music. Having formed in 1972, at the height of their fame in the mid-1970s six out of seven singles in a row reached No 1 in the UK: Fernando, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Knowing Me Knowing You, Name of the Game and Take a Chance on Me. They had three further No 1s and a total of 19 Top 10 hits. French album certifications – ABBA – Voyage" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 3 January 2022. album- és válogatáslemez-lista - eladási darabszám alapján - 2022" (in Hungarian). Mahasz . Retrieved 4 February 2023. a b Sheffield, Rob (4 November 2021). "The First New ABBA Album in 40 Years Was Worth the Wait". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 5 November 2021.